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No. 354,927; Patehted Dec. 28, 1886 (No Mbdel '2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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No. 354,927. PatentedDed. 28, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

Y JESSE ORB, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ORR, PAINTER &

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,927, dated December28, 1886.

Application filed May 21, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J EssE ORR, a citizen of the United States, residingat the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves, of which the followingis a specification.

This improvement is more particularly related to the open-fire grate orFranklin'stove.

The object of the improvement is to place the draft of the stove moredirectly under control, increase its heating capacity, and at the sametime to furnish a suitable and useful support to the blower, which forthis purpose is made capable of application either as a blower or adraftrregulator.

It has long been an objection to the opengrate stove that the blower,when not in use as such, was inconveniently in the way, forming anunsightly and dangerous object alongside of the stove, and disfiguringthe appearance of the latter when left upon the hearth of the same.

The accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, showsmy mode of overcoming the above objectionable features, similar lettersof reference indicating similar parts.

Figure 1 represents in full front perspective elevation an open-firestove adapted to my improvement. detached from the stove, showing thehandle and registerof the same. vation showing theblowerin combinationwith the upper bar of the grate and with'the lower edge of thefire'hood, Fig. 4, a full front perspective elevation showing the blowerresting upon the ash-plate E and closing the lower exposed portion ofthe grate, in which position it regulates the access of air to the fuelby the register in the blowerr To adapt the open or Franklin grate stoveto my improvement I throw from the body or face A of the frame a hood,B, conforming at its rear with the opening in the same, and with Fig. 2represents the blower Fig. 3 is a side ele.

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toward the rear at the top.) The register F permits the entrance ofatmospheric air when soft coal is burned, thus preventing smoke. Thehood B, projectingoutward into the room, radiates more heat into thesame, and is therefore better adapted to warm the apartment in which itis located than the open-grate stoves as usually constructed. Thearrangement of the blower F and ashplate E are such relative to thelower portion, G, of the fire-grate that when the blower is lifted offof the grate top bar and placed upon the ash-plate the inner top edge ofthe same shall closely contact with the bars G and cut off the access ofair to the fuel and the fire may be kept in a state of slow combustion,or may be given sufficient air for a moderate rate of combustion,byoperating theregister F.

It will be seen that my improvement adds to the heating capacity ofstoves of this class, and at the same time increases the economy of thesame in the'control of the fire secured thereby. It also furnishes asuitable restingplace for the blower Without any danger of burning thecarpet or furniture, the blower forming a component part of the stove.

Having described my improvement, its cona hood having its rear edgeconformed to and connected with the top opening in the front of thestove, and horizontal lower or front and side edges parallel with andvertically above the upper bars of the grate, and a blower construotedwith a register and adapted to close the space between the hood andgrate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with an open front stove having aforwardlyeprojecting hood,ashplate, and grate, of a detachableblower,formed and adapted either to close the space between the hood andgrate or to be placed upon the ash-plate to close the grate and cut offor limit the draft, substantially as set forth.

JESSE ORR.

Witnesses:

RALPH L. MOCALL, J. THOMPSON CRANE.

stove having a forwardly-projecting grate, of

